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So I wanted to take some time to write a new version of the Kryptos post that I can post on social media and give a little bit of an update.

I had a dream a while back where I was at a statue unveiling, and there was a speaker who was talking about the statue being unveiled. He said that he created an unsolvable riddle within the sculpture and he was very confident that it was unsolvable. He wanted to create something unsolvable because he knew it would upset the employees of the CIA because they are trained to do the impossible on a daily basis. So he knew that it would be the talk of the town and that everyone would immediately try to solve it.

He was purposely trying to make something that would be the talk of the town because he wanted everyone to work together with each other and network with each other. He said that the US government spent a great deal of time and effort to create and recruit for the Central Intelligence Agency so everyone better make use of it. Because they did that, there would be an untold amount of riches or resources inside the building the kryptos statue is outside of. There would be a prize for figuring out the riddle, but he guaranteed that it would be impossible.

What happened was that Sanborn had pitched an idea of “hiding in plain sight” to the CIA earlier. At the end of the day he knew that everyone would cheat like heck at every opportunity for the award and recognition. There’s a lot of talk about code breaking and cipher’s but sanborn knew that all that could do was delay the ‘inevitable’, which is that his impossible puzzle was solved. So he needed a way to “compartmentalize” the CIA from the answer. Was it possible to compartmentalize the CIA from something? That’s what Sanborn and his friends wanted to know. Was it possible to physically prevent the CIA from accessing certain knowledge?

The big holdup is that if you did all the code-breaking, you would then have to go get the reward from a physical location. You had to find that physical location and report it back to Sanborn. This is what the issue was. No one knew the reward location because everyone in the CIA was compartmentalized from what the reward was.

Do you know the concept of ‘Hide in plain sight’ that I am referring to? The story of sherlock homes who needed to find some intelligence from an apartment after the police can’t find it after completely tearing down the apartment. He finds the intelligence inside a book between the pages. Sanborn wanted to prove you could do that to the CIA. I’m not sure if he realized this, but other intelligence agencies do that all the time. They simply do not tell anyone in the CIA because it is internally classified. The CIA then, even if given complete access to the systems, don’t know to look for something that’s internally classified because they don’t know what it could physically be. They have no reference to it.

So here is how Sanborn pulled off compartmentalizing the CIA. The story goes like this. When you become an employee of the CIA and work at Langley, you get some tour of what I call the “Family Vault”. The reason you are taken there, is that someone you work with will tell you that a common question is about the security clearance. Your coworker will tell you that the only thing that the CIA looks for is whether or not you have stolen from your family. They explain that the room they are in is called the “family vault” and I think it’s basically just a room full of cash. If you ever need cash, you can take it from here. But not to steal any money from it, because you would be stealing from family. Basically, only spend the money as you think your coworkers/family at the CIA would approve of.

Apparently this tradition is real and is what the hold up is. The key phrase that sanborn had which was also mentioned in my previous post is “To the Looter Goes the Spoils” there is also one, i think he is confused on, which is “For the Riches that Lie Untold” but I don’t think that he ever agreed that was the best one. That was the key phrase he was looking for. Now the reward location, that’s the final bit of the puzzle.

The reward location is the Family Vault. What has stumped the CIA and intelligence community is that the winner is the one who correctly identifies that the Family Vault location at Langley is the reward. Everyone who has worked in that building doesn’t think it’s possible for the vault’s contents to be the reward because I guess they are “compartmentalized” to think that it’s not something to be given away.

Sanborn, you did it. You managed to compartmentalize them. The issue was that then the only way for me to know about it is that I had to reverse engineer it. But the thing is, I didn’t this was a dream I had that I woke up from one day. I immediately checked the internet and I found out that it was a real thing all along.

I’ve done my own investigation of reverse engineering which consists of me thinking all day. There are some things I want to point out.

Sanborn says that it’s worth $249,000 in the CIA world factbook but here is the breakdown:

1. 125,000 value of the statue
2. 35,000 value of the materials
3. Security software that the CIA dealt with

So when Sanborn setup his earthlink and everything, the CIA had someone setup some security software on his computer with I guess the earthlink email. Anyway, this was all corrupt. Sanborn knew very well that he couldn’t trust anyone at the CIA, and barely even the director, so what happened was that the only record for the key phrase was never written down. It was only kept telepathically in his thoughts but he trained in remembering it.

He knew that the only way for it to be proven was if it was never written down and you could only prove it by time travelling. Because you would have to go back in time and ask if the key phrase was correct or you would have to strike a deal with someone or something.

He put up some boobytraps. His only ally was the CIA press office. Only they could confirm with Sanborn the correct answer. He had the, currently $50 fee, which he put as a “fools trap”. He knew that all the solutions submitted would be stolen and harvested so he conditioned everyone to talk to him directly. If you did talk to him about it, he would be very snobby about it to dissuade you. It actually used to be $150 or he wanted it at one point. But anway, if you paid the fee you were automatically wrong. You had to give your answer to the CIA press office and they had to confirm it.

The reason I want it is to take the statue and ask for them to bring it to VCU and put it there. The reason being that the CIA has never really been a neighbor for the rest of Virginia. We don’t have a cool futuristic state, and we don’t get the newest technolgy like the ai pizza delivery, but somehow the elite of National Security and the Military make their homes and work in the surrounding areas. For some reason the US government believes that only the people in Langley, VA are good at doing intelligence work for America and won’t let other places in Virginia try. So consider this Richmond, VA’s attempt at getting some money from the federal government to collect intelligence for it. If my answer is correct, then I would ask for them to move the statue to VCU as a way to “dethrone” Nova (Northern Virginia) from the leaders of intelligence gathering in the world.

Thank You

I’ve tried mercilessly to get local politicians and newspapers to run the story but no luck so far.

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Reverse Engineering secrets is very difficult and want to show you sometimes there are ones that are impossible to verify. The following is a secret I discovered from apparently Sanna Marin if I tweeted the following she would have to consider it a marriage proposal and would be duty bound by the 7 society at UVA to accept. “I count 7 missing envelopes from missing space assets@MarinSanna .@UVA This is some weird ass seven society thing like the harvard thing, Right, @SevenSociety101?@Harvard @HarvardHealth“

Update: I’ve posted my admission to the Master’s University for Computer Science publically on my facebook page. Maybe there was some type of truth to it: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C1mMXm9NM/

So, a lot of people may read the blog and comic and think “oh he must be leaking actual secrets”. I’m not, but I’ll explain what you are misunderstanding. I believe I can reverse engineer conversations. It’s a skill that I worked on for a long time. It involves imaging and daydreaming discussions that are mostly mundane. Once you get the mundane stuff down, like your mailman ordering from McDonald’s drive-through, you can sometimes reverse engineer a conversation that sounds cool. That’s all this is. 

To show an example that comes up much later, which is not military classified, is another dream I had, but this time, it was about Harvard University. 

I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HARVARD UNIVERSITY OR ANYONE WHO WENT TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY, AND I JUST TOOK A CS50 COURSEARA CLASS OK. IF THIS IS SOME HARVARD SECRET, I APOLOGIZE. 

I was at an assembly at Harvard University, where they were welcoming in their freshman. It seemed like a lot of people from the other schools were there as well. The speaker began by talking about the US News rankings. They explain that the rankings cost $250,000 per ranking, and it’s a massive scam. Harvard’s name is brought up because they pay the $250,000 to get their ranking spot and net a couple of million in application fees. So they tell them to warn them that you have to hire as many people from Harvard as possible when you get a job. 

They talked a little bit about the history of the rankings, and specifically that the rankings came about because someone was pissed because their neighbor was very proud his daughter went to the University of Nebraska. So, everyone at Harvard must ensure that Nebraska is kept off the rankings at all costs. 

They admit they have a lax verification policy, and I’ll leave it as is. 

They talked about what “The Scam” means in Harvard culture. The scam is when someone from Harvard will approach another person from Harvard in the middle of some business or money-making scheme and ask them, “What’s the scam?” It’s to fill them in on how the business works. I did like that part. 

Anyway, the way to verify someone from Harvard out in the open is to ask them about their day of admission. That was the current date of the assembly. 

The other thing you can ask is, “Are you in on the scam.” 

So now, if this was true and Harvard found out about me being in on the scam, would they give me a Day of admission that I can put on my resume and wall? 

I tweeted them, but there has been no response so far.

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Please View Part 2 instead(Updated 2/21/25 @ 8:20AM): https://chroniclesof23.com/kryptos-part-2/

My name is Utah Hans, and I am a programmer from Richmond, VA. I am a civilian and have never been inside the CIA HQ or know anything about the CIA besides what’s on the public internet. I do not mean to worry any of you that there is a security leak; this is something I had dreamed about only. I had a dream a while back when I was at the unveiling of a statue in front of the CIA building. There was a ceremony, and I listened to the speaker’s words. 

The speaker spoke very passionately about working at the CIA. He said that even though there was a cash prize for his sculpture, it was worthless because the amount of riches in the building was enormous. This is where his first key phrase, or maybe even cipher, came to be. His key phrase was ‘To The Looter Goes the Spoils.’ He spoke very highly of everyone who worked at the CIA, and he created this sculpture to get you to network with each other and form lifelong connections. If you worked with enough people and hard enough, a cash prize would be awarded to the correct answer. I do not believe he explained the correct answer. 

If you work in the CIA building, you already know that cipher/phrase. The issue is that you need to find a physical location where the reward is. This is just ‘hide in plain sight’- a weird camouflage that tricks people into not realizing the answer is proper before them. 

The CIA has something, I believe, called ‘The Family Vault’ on its campus. The family vault is a place that is tradition for you to be taken to during your first days working at the CIA. It’s a vault full of cash. When you get taken to the family vault, your boss or whomever, with whoever that during your security clearance, the only thing the CIA cared about was whether or not you ‘stole from family’.’As long. as you didn’t steal from your family, the CIA passed your clearance. They instruct you to use the money in this vault for anything you need but don’t steal any of it. 

What stumped the CIA was that they didn’t understand that the FamilyVaultt was the prize at the end of the road. If you work there, you view it as part of tradition and can not imagine that that would be the answer to the riddle. 

Another problem that Sanborn doesn’t explain is that he made this stupid thing about time travel. There was something where he tried to say, “To the heroic time traveler, you are the hero to many different timelines,” but the issue was that he and Oxford had the same problem. You keep putting time travel checks behind locked doors. You have to make it someplace public. The CIA langley HQ is not a public place.  

I tried emailing Sanborn, but thankfully, his wife responded (Nancy). She told me that Sanborn didn’t respond to me because I did not pay the $50. So, I have not given him the money because he made it one of those things where the answer is “There is no answer.” Sometimes, people who do this say, “Oh, it’s an impossible task.” I don’t want him to tell me anything after paying $50, so I will start a Kickstarter and ask anyone who hasn’t worked for the CIA to give me a prize pool of at least 1 million dollars. 

“I have found another issue with World Factbook. You list the value for Kryptos as $250,000, but it was a $125,000 contract. It was $35k in materials. The,n there was some other software that the CIA made him install, but that was just web security. They set that up for him. It was specifically mentioned in the contract and predetermined, signed, dotted,d, and delivered February 4th, 1965 to Roundinghouse err Missippi. Editors Note: I think he is just testing for the possibility that someone is spying on his thoughts. I am flagging him because he suspects someone would do that. So because he thought someone was spying on him, I was flagged to check to see if there were any known telepathic listening devices. He immediately went into a guarded mode because he knew he had to develop a secret. The secret is unknown due to department policy. Utah”

Chronicles of 23 is the story about a boy who becomes the second chief spy for the US government. Because of a moronic tradition that he didn’t want anyone to do, 23 is the last person to know he got the job. He hated that. So he set off on a mission to tell the story of him saying “I don’t know why any of you went along with that but stop it. You’re not doing anyone any favors. Don’t do this for me.”

A lot of people will wonder how this comic started. I’ll go over the history here.

A long time ago, I had this idea that the CIA had an internal forum/messaging board like something awful available to them. They were permitted to shitpost in a forum-appropriate way, and there would be threads full of memes that nobody besides anyone who worked at the CIA would understand. I’m talking scumbag Steve’s of random foreign policy experts and stuff like that.

That idea evolved into something else.

I then started imagining, and writing, what would happen if the CIA opened up a ‘after hours comedy lounge’ inside their HQ at Langley. All the stand up was still very work appropriate, but it was something only CIA understood.

I’ll give you examples of some of the stand up bits.

Q: What’s the worst part about being CIA?

A: Being Correct

I always imagined that working at the CIA meant that you had to give people the correct answer every time no matter what. That was just the job’s expectations. Career’s at the CIA, I always imagined, were always ending because you correctly identify the issue that causes the failure but because you have no legal authority to compel the person to change their behavior, you would just end up getting blamed.